Business Process Modeling & Enterprise Architecture

Do you use diagrams and flowcharts to capture “as-is” processes and plan improvements? With Avolution, your team can easily design and update processes, and use diagrams to collaborate and communicate.

Align Strategy & Execution

EAs need centralized, connected business process modeling tools to streamline operations, link processes to technology, and empower teams.

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    Centralized, Authoritative Process View

    Create a single source of truth for transparent, governed decision-making.

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    Connected to Technology Architecture

    Link processes to enterprise architecture to understand dependencies & align business & IT.

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    Easy Access and Standards Adoption

    View, edit, and standardize processes using BPMN and familiar formats.

Align EA with Business Process Modeling

With ABACUS there’s flexibility and the tool also supports 100+ out of the box frameworks and notations including Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN)

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Connect Processes to Enterprise Architecture

  • Seamless Integration and Import: Import existing Visio, UML, or BPMN diagrams with ease—reducing setup time and preserving valuable design work.
  • Link Processes to Business Goals: Connect process models directly to capabilities, value streams, and customer journeys for full visibility across the enterprise.
  • Unified Architecture and Process View: Keep everything connected in one repository where changes flow automatically, ensuring data consistency across models and views.

Model, Analyze, and Optimize with Confidence

  • Model ‘As-Is’ and ‘To-Be’ States: Design current and future processes using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface with BPMN and APQC standards for clarity and consistency.

 

  • Collaborate and Share in Real Time: Invite teams to view or edit online diagrams, update hierarchies, and annotate designs collaboratively.
  • Drive Insightful, Data-Driven Decisions: Use prebuilt dashboards and analytics to visualize costs, bottlenecks, and dependencies—supporting smarter, faster optimization.

 

  • 67%

    of organizations report moderate to dramatic improvements in IT visibility with ABACUS

  • $1m

    up to $1M+ in technical debt savings reported by organizations using ABACUS

Guide: Aligning Architecture with Process Modeling and Management

Aligning business processes with enterprise architecture is essential to ensuring that IT investments truly support organizational goals, enhance system integration, and eliminate information silos.

Download our free eBook to learn how to successfully align your EA and BPM initiatives—including practical guidance on creating clear visualizations of activities, resources, and information flows across your organization.

ABACUS provides a single source of truth. This powerful feature helps to link everything together, saving time and maintenance especially when constructing visualizations and dashboards.

– Enterprise Architecture Business Analyst, CERN

ABACUS enabled Enstar to view the total server costs across applications, drilling down into the top five costs to determine if it was environment specific, licenses, or other factors contributing to the costs.

– Lead Enterprise Architect, Enstar

We’ve created diagrams to tell the story of change analysis and to visualize the complexity of the portfolios – to say: “This is where we need to rationalize our projects and applications.

– Chief Architect, KLP

We are building an overview of our landscape, focusing on areas which are most critical. Now we can drill down and identify how much each business function costs

– Lead Enterprise Architect, NXP

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